The war in the empty air : victims, perpetrators, and postwar Germans / / Dagmar Barnouw

• Autore: Barnouw Dagmar
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.53/072/043
• Soggetto topico: Collective memory - Germany; World War, 1939-1945 - Germany - Historiography; Photography in historiography; National characteristics, German; History - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Germany History 1933-1945 Historiography
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-295) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface: The Loss of History in Postwar German Memory; 1. Historical Memory and the Uses of Remorse; 2. ""Their Monstrous Past"": German Wartime Fictions; 3. Censored Memories:""Are the Germans Victims or Perpetrators?""; 4. The War in the Empty Air: A Moral History of Destruction; 5. No End to ""Auschwitz"": Historical or Redemptive Memory; 6. This Side of Good and Evil: A German Story; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing fixation on German remorse' questions taboos that the political and cultural elites in those three countries would rather leave alone ... [Barnouw] makes us understand why the maintenance of a privileged memory of the Nazi period and World War II may not survive much longer."
• Titolo autorizzato: The war in the empty air
• ISBN: 0-253-11182-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827757803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II